Example sentences of "for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand it is nothing and asks for nothing , on the other it is the secret and silent source of the destruction of everything . |
| 2 | ‘ I was n't with Dr Mackenzie for two years for nothing . ’ |
| 3 | I 've only eight working years left now and with all my savings gone , I simply ca n't afford to work for nothing . |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't call me bitch for nothing . |
| 5 | But there was time now for nothing but actions . |
| 6 | ‘ A Year 's Pay for Nothing , ’ read the headline . |
| 7 | — I 'm sittin' here waitin' for nothing . |
| 8 | But he feels let-down and disappointed that all his years of effort in building trade in the Harrow , a city-centre pub , count for nothing . |
| 9 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 10 | This does indeed seem like getting something for nothing , but is it really ? |
| 11 | What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing ? |
| 12 | Italians think of the state system much as Britons used to regard ‘ Auntie ’ and not for nothing is it known as ‘ Mamma RAI ’ . |
| 13 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 14 | Not for nothing was it dubbed the ‘ Triumph Snag ’ . |
| 15 | People will nevertheless say that the desire is for nothing more than alcohol . |
| 16 | Not for nothing were such power stations described as ‘ brick cathedrals ’ ; Bankside is the finest manifestation of this tradition . |
| 17 | Wales did find the net in the 32nd minute through Malcolm Allen , but it counted for nothing because Dean Saunders had fouled Hans van Breukelen . |
| 18 | It was not for nothing that he was chosen as Mr Squeaky Clean after the sexual and financial aberrations of his two predecessors . |
| 19 | He was naked , and obviously he was not called the biggest chopper in the Brigade for nothing . |
| 20 | The study of something for its own sake , for the sake of knowing , understanding , grasping it and for nothing else , is an essential characteristic of education , lower or higher , though more obviously of higher education . |
| 21 | ‘ It was for nothing , Daddy . ’ |
| 22 | Price : £108,994 0–60mph : 6.5secs 30–70mph : 6.1secs 30–50 in 4th : 2.4secs Top Speed : 143mph Overall MPG : 15.1 Citation : For putting the fight back into Bentley and creating a form of transport that wants for nothing at all |
| 23 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |
| 24 | He gave me a whole bunch of flowers for nothing . |
| 25 | I wish I 'd hidden the bits — I feel silly ripping it up for nothing . |
| 26 | I remember I had to get some photos so I could get into the swimming pool for nothing . |
| 27 | It 's not for nothing that he has earned his reputation as Scotland 's most effective ‘ company doctor ’ . |
| 28 | Friends like the Post Office workers who have kindly agreed to deliver this leaflet for nothing … . |
| 29 | He lived in beautiful houses , travelled the world in the greatest of comfort , and wanted for nothing . |
| 30 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |